Frodsham is a market town, civil parish and also electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and also Chester and also the ritualistic county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, raising to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is about 3 miles (5 kilometres) south of Runcorn, 16 miles (26 km) south of Liverpool, as well as 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Manchester. The River Weaver runs to its northeast and on the west it overlooks the tidewater of the River Mersey. The A56 roadway and also the Chester-- Manchester railway line go through the town, as well as the M56 motorway passes to the northwest. In medieval times Frodsham was a crucial district and port belonging to the Earls of Chester. Its parish church, St. Laurence's, still exhibits proof of a building existing in the 12th century in its nave as well as is referenced in Domesday Book. A market is held each Thursday, and also Frodsham's practicality as a trading centre was stressed by the visibility of the "big five" removing financial institutions as well as numerous building societies, though the branches of HSBC and NatWest have actually just recently closed. Development in the town's stores and also premises with alcohol licences appears with the recent (post-2002) opening or modernisation of contemporary-style bar/restaurants, take-away food stores as well as pubs, as well as in the continued presence of little, specialised, organisations operating from town-centre shops.